La Tour (1928)
1928 · Short film · 14 min · dir. René Clair
- Documentary
Synopsis
A poetic documentary tribute to the famous Eiffel tower, built for the 1889 World Fair and intended to have been destroyed 20 years later. A vocal subset of Parisians (among which, one may surmise, Clair would've been counted) insisted the Tower remain above the River Seine, a continued display of French engineering excellence. Clair makes strategic use of double exposures and dissolves, capturing the mechanical exuberance of the Tower; The great swooping steel latticework edifice a bounding…
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Details
- Director
- René Clair
- Writer
- René Clair
- Cinematography
- Georges Périnal
- Studio
- Albatros
- Released
- 1928-01-02
- Running time
- 14 minutes
Cast & crew
René Clair Director
